Girls from Portofino is a very polish book and I think only Poles can fully understand and enjoy it. Reading it felt like reading my own diary, reliviGirls from Portofino is a very polish book and I think only Poles can fully understand and enjoy it. Reading it felt like reading my own diary, reliving my childhood, opening an old photo book and revisiting good and bad moments from my own past. It felt THAT personal to read it. I could relate to everything in this book. Grażyna Plebanek told my own generation's story. She depicted the experience of women similar to me, of people from my own block of flats. The story she told is captivating, moving, very emotional and most of all REAL. Reading it was highly entertaining, it often made me laugh, many times it made me nod in understanding.. sometimes it even made me cry. Words of Plebanek evoked my own experience, it was truly wonderful to read this book.